21 november 2018

Surviving the Titanic

In this document we're going to explore the question whether women had preferential treatment during the evacuation of Titanic and thus a higher chance of survival

Data exploration

We are going to look at several factors that might shed some light on chance of survival

  • Sex
  • Age
  • Class

Survival chances based on Sex

One can conclude from the chart above that being a woman significantly improved your chances of survival

Survival chances based on Age

Being a child improves your chances of survival as a male but being a child and female does not improve your chances in comparison to adult females

Survival chances based on Class

Apparently, if you traveled in first of second class, you had the highest change of survival. Being a child in those classes (males and females) gave you a 100% change of living another day. It seems that passengers in the higher classes got a preferential treatment not females